Tag: adoption

100 Word Story: Adoption

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Jan Wilberg

In Nicaragua we stayed in a house with bars on the windows. A dog tied to a long rope paced under the window. In the morning, we heard the clopping of horse feet on the pavement and wagon wheels rolling as if in a… Continue Reading “100 Word Story: Adoption”

Category: 100 Word StoriesTags: 100-Word Story, adoption, Nicaragua

More Coffee?

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Jan Wilberg

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Every morning this week has been a test of my ability to find the narrow passageway between two indecisive people that will lead me to the coffee, then to the creamer, then to the cereal or waffle or yogurt or whatever else the free… Continue Reading “More Coffee?”

Category: Marriage, Family, Dogs, and CatTags: adoption, career, Mexican busboys, restaurant workers, wait staff

Home Field

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Jan Wilberg

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This is the story of a magical day – a sterling day, so perfect that it could only have been a crafted, scripted waking dream. The gods created it, I’m sure, as a gift for our strained family and the troubled times we had… Continue Reading “Home Field”

Category: WritingTags: adoption, healing, Nicaragua, San Marcos, soccer

If This, Then That: Reflections on Adoption

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Jan Wilberg

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The theology of adoption has a thick ribbon of rescue running through it. To rescue a child in dire straits is heroic. No doubt about it, children who are available for adoption, those beautiful little faces you see on the adoption web pages and… Continue Reading “If This, Then That: Reflections on Adoption”

Category: Marriage, Family, Dogs, and CatTags: adopting children, adoption, adoptive parents, NaBloPoMo, National Adoption Month

Find Her: A Reflection on Lion

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Jan Wilberg

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I don’t give advice to adoptive parents. I don’t tell them what I know or even what I suspect. I keep my mouth shut. It used to be that I figured their experiences would be different and, indeed, everyone’s experiences are different. Easy or… Continue Reading “Find Her: A Reflection on Lion”

Category: WritingTags: adoption, adoptive mother, Discover Prompts, finding birth parents, gratitude, Lion

Straight with Many Limes

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Jan Wilberg

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Flor de Cana is Nicaraguan rum. I’m not a connoisseur of rum. I only drink this rum. Because it is Nicaraguan. I remember being in Managua, sitting in the courtyard of Casa Bolonia, a squat, sprawling hotel where plywood had been used to make… Continue Reading “Straight with Many Limes”

Category: WritingTags: adoption, memoir, Nicaragua, rum

I Wasn’t There

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Jan Wilberg

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Adopted’s birthday Dates on papers, abstractions For me but not her

Category: WritingTags: adoption, birthday

Find Her: A Reflection on Lion

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Jan Wilberg

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Category: WritingTags: adoption, adoptive mother, Discover Prompts, finding birth parents, gratitude, Lion

Hard Truth

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Jan Wilberg

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“Your daughter says your family has more conflict than average.” It’s wasn’t my first IEP meeting*. I knew the drill. But it was the first IEP meeting for this child who at the time was a 13-year old going into 8th grade.And it was the first… Continue Reading “Hard Truth”

Category: WritingTags: adopted children, adoption, adoptive mother, children with special needs, IEP, Individual Education Plan, special education

Finding My Son’s Mother: Not My Riddle to Solve

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Jan Wilberg

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I thought I’d found my son’s mother. She had the right name. She was about the right age. She was born in his country. And she looked like him. I enlarged the photos of her on Facebook, studied her face. She was stocky like… Continue Reading “Finding My Son’s Mother: Not My Riddle to Solve”